A big country of aerospace with black technology

"The main job of the laboratory technician is to conduct various tests on the institute's equipment."

After seeing off a large number of people, Zhang Xingyang said:

"There are actually relatively few tests for the armor project. We are now mostly testing projects for unmanned tanks and drones."

"Why?"

Wu Jiang was a little surprised. After he wanted to join the research project, he mainly wanted to do the Heavenly Weapon Armor.

“Because it is very difficult to learn how to operate unmanned aerial vehicles through armor.

You need at least three months of various trainings before you can initially operate the armor. "

Zhang Xingyang explained in detail.

The way the armor controls unmanned tanks and drones is not particularly friendly.

There are traditional buttons, as well as non-traditional vision sensors.

The buttons are mainly integrated on the hands and feet of the armor.

Control of unmanned tanks, drones, etc. can be completed through buttons.

This is also an important reason why Zhang Xingyang sweats after completing the exercise.

It doesn't look like much movement, but the actual amount of exercise is quite large.

"Okay, I will learn how to operate the armor as soon as possible." Wu Jiang nodded.

Although Zhang Xingyang said that it will take three months to study.

But Wu Jiang thought that if he studied hard, maybe he could complete it in two months?

However, it turns out.

Learning is not something you can do whatever you want.

The learning content related to the armor far exceeded Wu Jiang's expectations.

Not only do you need to learn the operation of the armor, but also various maintenance and repairs.

Especially the maintenance content was far beyond any tank he had repaired before.

Wu Jiang is one of the few technical masters in the tank division.

He still has a strong talent in mechanics, but even so, it still took him more than a month to complete the armor maintenance part.

The next learning content is even more unexpected.

He even had to learn various aspects of unmanned tanks and unmanned armored vehicles.

Wu Jiang also approached Zhang Xingyang and asked why he wanted to learn these contents.

Zhang Xingyang replied in just one sentence: "Could it be that if your tank breaks down on the battlefield, do you still have to wait for the logistics to repair it?"

After listening, Wu Jiang honestly learned all the contents of unmanned tanks and unmanned armored vehicles.

Only after learning it did I realize that these contents were actually the same as what I had done before when I was in the tank division.

There's not much difference.

It's just that the unmanned tank has eliminated the crew and added a lot of automatic control units.

In terms of pure mechanical structure, there is not much difference.

Just when Wu Jiang was busy studying.

Zhang Xingyang was busy with another thing.

Today the institute is responsible for too many projects.

Especially many military equipment development projects.

In fact, it is beyond their scope of responsibilities.

Therefore, after application, all these military equipment projects will be merged to form another research institute.

"Future Equipment Research Institute, the name is quite impressive!"

At the establishment ceremony of the institute, the old leader said with a smile.

"I hope you can develop more and more advanced equipment for the future of the country!"

During the ceremony, there was a round of applause.

The inauguration ceremony was not long. The old leader finished his speech after saying a few words.

Zhang Xingyang has never been in the habit of giving speeches as a leader and directly announced the start of work in the institute.

The location of the institute is not in the city, but at the foot of a mountain.

Together with the three mountains behind it, they are the territory of the research institute.

Many of the equipment within the research institute require a larger area to be tested.

This is also an important reason why the research institute is built at the foot of the mountain.

"Have all the projects of the institute been moved here?"

After the ceremony, the old chief and Zhang Xingyang strolled on the avenue where all construction work had not been completed.

"What has been moved here are mainly research projects on various army equipment. Unmanned aerial vehicles and strategic bombers have not come here yet."

Zhang Xingyang looked at the airport construction team that was still busy in the distance and said.

"Our airport is not finished yet, it will probably take another two months."

Airport construction is slower than housing construction.

After all, their runways need to bear large bombers weighing hundreds of tons, and the requirements in all aspects are very high.

Moreover, the construction of hangars that can accommodate large bombers is also very slow.

"Their speed is pretty fast."

The old chief explained: "Generally, such runways and hangars for taking off and landing large aircraft cannot be built within a year or two."

"Two or three months is nothing, I can afford to wait." Zhang Xingyang said.

The level of the strategic bomber project is actually the highest among the entire institute's projects.

Therefore, Zhang Xingyang has enough patience with it.

"The airport for the drone project can be completed in one or two weeks."

Compared with strategic bombers, Zhang Xingyang actually has more enthusiasm for the UAV project.

Strategic bombers have a stronger deterrent effect.

In fact, it is impossible to dispatch frequently in regional confrontations.

Therefore, it is the heavy bombers that really play an important role.

"What are you doing?"

The old chief pointed to a large pit in the distance and asked with some confusion.

If they said they were blowing a mountain flat, the old chief would understand.

After all, there isn't much flat land here.

But digging a big hole in the flat ground was really unexpected.

What, you still want to dig a reservoir here?

Zhang Xingyang followed the other person's fingers and looked over:

"They were digging a marine equipment experimental site."

"Future equipment cannot be limited to the army and air force."

The old chief also became interested and said, "It's not so big, right?"

This large puddle has a visual length of 500 meters and a width of 150 meters.

"Are you still planning to build an aircraft carrier here?" the old chief said half-jokingly.

"Maybe it can be made."

The first sentence Zhang Xingyang answered was a bit scary.

"But considering our funds, it probably won't be that easy to build."

Only then did the old chief understand.

This is asking for funding in a roundabout way.

"Honestly, what are you planning to do?" The old chief did not respond directly to Zhang Xingyang's words, but continued to talk about the previous topic.

"Remember the drone aircraft carrier we discussed?" Zhang Xingyang talked about a past event.

Last year, the construction of a drone aircraft carrier was proposed.

And it is believed that it can play a greater role in regional battles.

"Are you going to build it here?"

The old chief was a little surprised. This blister was too small.

Even a drone aircraft carrier seems to be unable to accommodate it.

"Of course not, this is used to test the drone aircraft carrier model."

"The actual construction is elsewhere. We have found a shipyard and are in talks to acquire it."

Zhang Xingyang told what they really did.

"How many tons are you planning to produce?" the old chief said enthusiastically.

Aircraft carrier is something for everyone nowadays.

It's still a very new thing.

Even Zhang Xingyang has already said that this is a drone aircraft carrier.

It is not an aircraft carrier in the normal sense.

"More than 20,000 tons."

Zhang Xingyang said after thinking about their plan.

"It is expected to be able to carry 36 drones of various types."

The number of carrier-based aircraft is much larger than that of a normal aircraft carrier of this tonnage.

A normal aircraft carrier of more than 20,000 tons can only be regarded as a light aircraft carrier.

Generally speaking, it can only carry a dozen fighter jets.

The weight of drones is much lighter than that of fighter jets.

Even the heavy-duty drones used for bombing missions are only half the weight of light fighter jets.

"The tonnage is a little low."

The old chief said in his first reaction.

Then he thought about it and said, "But there are quite a few carrier-based aircraft."

The Varyag aircraft carrier, which was still being renovated in the shipyard at this time, has a displacement of about 50,000 tons.

However, the estimated number of carrier-based aircraft is only more than thirty.

It is almost the same as a drone aircraft carrier or carrier-based aircraft with only half the tonnage.

"The drone aircraft carrier will save a lot of configuration, and the size of the drones will be much smaller, which is why it can carry more drones."

Zhang Xingyang said: "If you want to know more, I can take you to the office."

The old chief naturally wanted to know more about what the drone aircraft carrier was all about.

So the two of them walked half a circle around the dusty construction site and returned to Zhang Xingyang's office.

The office had just been renovated, and there was still a rather pungent smell of wood.

Although the large windows in the office are all open.

But it will probably take a week or two for the smell to completely dissipate.

But neither of them cared much about it.

Zhang Xingyang walked to a drawing rack in the office and found a simple structural drawing from the locked filing cabinet.

Hang the drawings on the shelf.

The drawing is not very detailed, just a structural sketch.

But we can still see a lot of things from the drawings.

For example, the layout of an aircraft carrier is quite different from common aircraft carriers.

Just like Ship Island.

Ordinary aircraft carriers have a single island and are mounted sideways.

Some aircraft carriers also use dual-ship islands, but they are also on one side of the aircraft carrier.

The UAV aircraft carrier adopts a very special center-mounted island.

"Why is the island placed in this position?"

The first time the old leader saw the drawings, he was attracted by this unpleasant-looking ship island.

"This issue is actually a bit complicated."

After Zhang Xingyang poured a glass of mineral water for the old leader and himself, he took a sip and said:

"It's mainly caused by the way it takes off.

Ordinary aircraft carrier-based aircraft take off from the deck of the aircraft carrier.

This is true with or without catapults and ski jump decks. "

The main purpose of ski jumping from the deck is to make up for the lack of speed of carrier-based aircraft when taking off.

The function of the catapult is to provide additional power to the carrier-based aircraft so that it no longer needs to ski jump from the deck.

"Although the UAV aircraft carrier has activated its catapult, it can also ski jump."

Zhang Xingyang pointed to the sloping runway on the drawing and said.

Compared to the usual deck, it's very peculiar.

It has a very steep angle and is almost three-quarters of the way from the front of the carrier.

"This whole thing is its ski jump deck."

"How can it still fly?"

The old chief said with some surprise.

It's not like he doesn't understand this at all.

With such a large inclination angle, the speed will definitely decrease to a certain extent.

Although the angle of inclination is large, it can have greater lift.

But the reduction in speed will also reduce the lift.

In this way, the lift force seems to be visibly reduced to the naked eye.

"So we set up an electromagnetic catapult at this location."

Zhang Xingyang pointed to the rear of the inclined runway and said.

The reason for leaving so much space.

The main reason is to leave space for the electromagnetic catapult.

"Isn't it quite difficult to develop electromagnetic catapults?"

The old chief said with an uncertain tone.

The advantages of electromagnetic ejection are visible to the naked eye.

But except for eagle sauce, no country in the world has adopted this technology.

Do they not want to?

Of course not.

The technical difficulty of electromagnetic ejection can stump 99% of the countries in the world.

The key to this is the issue of integrated power management.

But this problem is not a big problem for the Future Equipment Research Institute.

"We have already accumulated a certain amount of technology in electromagnetic technology."

Zhang Xingyang said: "We did preliminary research in this area when we were working on the laser weapon project."

"It won't be difficult for us to go further."

The old chief had no objections to this.

He has also seen the laser air defense system, so he naturally knows how powerful its power management system is.

The instantaneous power of electromagnetic ejection and the instantaneous power of laser system.

The needs of the two are almost the same.

"So, this runway on the right is used for landing?"

On the right side of the ship island is an almost identical runway.

Also a large angle.

"Yes, we have set up six arresting cable net devices here so that it can still land the ship safely at a large inclination angle." Zhang Xingyang said.

The difficulty of landing a drone is actually greater than that of a carrier-based aircraft.

Because in terms of accuracy, current equipment cannot compare with elite carrier-based aircraft pilots.

So they can only recycle them in this way.

The arresting cables will be woven into a web.

Drones will be captured by this net when they enter the recovery deck.

This is also a helpless move when the technology is not up to standard.

Because of this, the drone's efficiency will be greatly reduced.

"Have you completed all the design work?"

The old chief asked after listening.

"Not yet, just part of the structural discussion work has been completed."

Zhang Xingyang shook his head:

"We don't have any reserves for each of these technologies, so we need to develop them bit by bit."

"The pool you saw before is going to be used for experiments on drone takeoff and landing on water."

The old chief said: “If you can complete it within two years, maybe we can have two aircraft carriers overnight.

A regular aircraft carrier and an accompanying drone aircraft carrier. "

The Varyag has been at the shipyard for four years.

It has been more than three years since the renovation officially started.

The renovation is expected to be completed in less than two years. (End of chapter)